Bethany's Hockey Rants

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Game 1, Two Points

by Bethany on 10/04/09 at 08:51 PM ET
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The Columbus Blue Jackets opened their season against the Minnesota Wild. It was an amazing game. The Jackets were tentative at first, but eventually got their act together and got the win.

With the new season, I’m changing my post game format.

The Hot:

*Umberger getting the short-handed goal. Not to mention the first goal of the season for the Blue Jackets.
*Steve Mason picking right up where he left off.
*Hitchcock is still getting great cheers from the fans, I love that man.
*Rusty Klesla getting a goal on the day he signed an extension. (More on this later)
*Voracek is huge. It was my first time seeing this kid since last season, wow.

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Comfy in Sixth

by Bethany on 03/25/09 at 12:57 AM ET
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The Jackets are leaving Florida with three out of four points and have a firm grip on sixth place in the Western Conference.

But, let’s talk about the game tonight.

The Jackets looked they were ready to get back to Columbus. They didn’t seem like they cared to be at the game, and really it was a tough game to watch.

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Hitchcock gets #500

by Bethany on 02/19/09 at 10:14 PM ET
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A HUGE congrats to Coach Ken Hitchcock who earned his 500th win as an NHL Coach. He’s the best thing that has ever happened to the Columbus Blue Jackets, and one of the best in the league. Thank you Hitch for giving the Jackets an identity.

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Letting him rest…

by Bethany on 02/04/09 at 09:50 PM ET
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Time to let the kid rest. It was obvious against Dallas, and it was obvious against the Blues last night, Steve Mason needs to rest!! Thankfully, Hitchcock got the message and on Friday, in Pittsburgh, Dubie gets his first start as a Blue Jacket.

Let’s talk about the game. We hit a lot of posts - but that is no excuse for the way we played. Not saying anything bad about a team that is able to play a pretty style of hockey, but we aren’t that team. We don’t win hockey games with that. We win by outworking the other team and playing a “weighty” game.

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Blues in Cbus

by Bethany on 02/03/09 at 03:54 PM ET
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Rusty is back! And, Steve Mason is feeling much better so he will be making his 19th consecutive start tonight. The Jackets are taking on the St. Louis Blues who lost in a shootout to Detroit last night.

Backman and OKT are the scratches on defense for tonight. Picard has cleared waivers and is now heading to Syracuse.

The Blues always play well against us, and we should go into this game expecting the Blues to play a “weighty” game. The Blue Jackets have always struggled against the teams they should beat, but at home, we shouldn’t in theory have that issue.

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Rick Nash leads the way

by Bethany on 01/28/09 at 10:46 PM ET
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Rick Nash is for real. He’s the best captain that this franchise has ever known. He never gives up, and is always willing to do what it takes to make his team win. So let’s take a trip down memory lane with Nash.

What I love the most is that he hugs everyone, like seriously everyone around him.

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Hitchionary 2.0?

by Bethany on 11/26/08 at 06:56 PM ET
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If you remember, Michael Arace wrote a “Hitchionary” earlier in the season. Bill Davidge wrote another one with quotes that Hitch has said since the puck has dropped. It’s a pretty good read, so you should probably check it out.

Here are some of my favorites:

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2-3-0

by Bethany on 10/19/08 at 08:10 PM ET
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I really don’t want to talk about the game from last night, which is probably why it took me until now to even post about it. Coming off a huge home opener win, we had one of the worst efforts I have seen from the Blue Jackets. Fredrik Norrena looked absolutely awful in net, and he admitted it.

“I didn’t stop anything.”

It was definitely a team loss though. We weren’t even trying, and even though we had three goals, it should have just been a shutout as far as I’m concerned. If we are going to make the playoffs we have to start playing better as a team. The goaltenders, the defense, and the forwards. We don’t have an excuse to be out of a game ever, we have two perfectly qualified goaltenders, we have a blue line that shouldn’t hurt us (Tyutin was a minus-3, Klesla was a minus-4 last night), and we have forwards that are able to score.

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The ‘Hitchionary’

by Bethany on 10/08/08 at 09:47 AM ET
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Michael Arace put out one of the funniest (to me at least) articles that I have seen in quite some time.

He took words that Ken Hitchcock uses ALL the time, and turned them into a bit of a dictionary to get us ready for hockey season, the result....Hitchionary.

Below are some of the words included, but I urge you to read it all.

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Victory against the Wild!

by Bethany on 10/04/08 at 10:38 AM ET
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Wow, what an amazing game! Okay, so maybe it wasn’t the most exciting first period, but it was great to see our team working as a team. Here are some random tidbits from the game.

I said this before, Pazzy sprained an ankle when Boogaard went into the net. Hitchcock said in his post game that Pazzy could have finished the game, but they put Norrena in just to be safe. Umberger took a slash to the finger, he will be back practicing with the team on Tuesday. Leclaire will be back practicing with the team also Tuesday. Hitch also said that the team will be back to 100% aside from Torres come Tuesday. Boll did have an ice pack on his hand in the locker room after the game, I don’t know what is going on with him and, I am sure we will be updated today.

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